Indieweb CMS: WordPress the only complete option? (kbin.earth)

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I'm interested in starting my own indieweb site and using it to interact with the fediverse.

In looking through the official documentation I came across the chart of CMS and their compatibility with building-blocks. It makes it look like WordPress is the only CMS that supports the full set of IndieWeb building-blocks/services, and even micro.blog is lacking a few features like Semantic Linkbacks, Post Kinds, and Syndication Links, but then I find that these are just WordPress plugins providing some feature support for Wordpress. What CMS options would be considered to have the "complete set" of all indieweb features, and which one would be most friendly for use by a beginner?

In an ideal world I'd love to find service with a configuration to set up a full set of Indiweb services including Bridgy, Webmentions, Rel-Me / Indieauth, etc. Is Micro.Blog the most beginner friendly option for this purpose? How does it compare to Wordpress?

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[-] gwl 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

A more complete answer, as I was kinda hangry when I answered last

https://www.drupal.org/project/activitypub - the most wordpress like, and just like wordpress it's focused on being a complete site builder. Also like wordpress it's bloated (but it is less bloated than wordpress)

https://ghost.org/ - intentionally focused on blogs, newspaper style posts where there's not often layout changes, with themes & templates for posts just like how wordpress does. Simple by design, but less simple than the next 2, also more flexible than the next 2

https://writefreely.org/ - text focused, even simpler by design, basically only really one page layout option

https://joinplu.me/ - text focused, but can fully customise the CSS, though not as many layout options

[-] gwl 1 points 1 day ago

No!

If anything it's a bloated mess.

There's Ghost, there's static gen, there's jekyll

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